Wow, what an amazing series of informative comments! Thank you very much!

And why on earth would I go to an llm or a human editor for /posting on slashdot/ ?

So again, you are saying that you are incapable oft writing coherent thoughts in a blog without an AI?

And in this very special case: you get triggered so heavy emotionaly by people who want real discussions with humans or (university context) input from real students rather than an AI that you can no longer write on your own?

You are a very good slave.

And to stick to your frozen-meals analogy: When you consume frozen meals you consume stuff that someone else decided to put together. You are no longer in control. And the health benefits of frozen meals are devastating.

So you are saying that without an AI (in this case CoPilot) you are no longer capable of writing coherent and useful _posts_to_a_blog_?

No, AI ist not at all like a spellchecker or a calculator. It takes away the ability to think for yourself and act for yourself. Which in the rund takes away the ability to make decisions in your own. You replace the 'wwjd' armbands with 'wwaid' mental cuffs.

In your case, meaning from the way you describe your workprocess, it seems that what you write is the output of an ai and you are just the guy putting AIs output into a presentable form for this blog (/.)

So it is more like you are the AIs spellchecker.

Decades after inventing one of the most influental and important operating systems he destroys it within a couple oft days. Like burning rome to the ground.

AI is about to destroy society as we know it. Not in a good way, like disrupting things for the better, which is sometimes necessary.

No, people already start giving away their independence and their ability to learn new things and 'lets simply ask ChatGPT'. The very thing that made us go forward, the curiosity to learn new things, the will to endure the frustration to fail until you finally get it (whatever 'it' is) is not slowly but within months erased. 'Just ASK ChatGPT' is the new mantra. Don't know how to code? Use Claude. Give decision making to an AI and everything will be fine. Great.

My first distro was SuSE Linux 4.4.1, the last one I used despite my Raspis was Devuan (since I am pretty skeptical ofe systemD, yes I know the Raspis use it). So today marks a sad day.

I've reported this as abuse. Inventing a detailed psychlogical profile of a person with the obvious intent of harming said person is just plain wrong.

No one who has any professional knowledge in this field would a: analyze a person without consent and b: come to a conclusion without seeing the person in person (i.e. not based in forum posts) and c: never publish the conclusions.

What is extremely obvious is that you used an llm to get at least parts of this evaluation. How ... ridiculous obsessive to tell an llm to analyze a stranger an publish the findings.

I strongly have to disagree, albeit only on a personal level. I believe in God, and you can make all the fun of that you want.
But using AI for decision making? Not even remotely. I can try to tell myself that AI in and of itself is just a tool. And as a tool I've used it. It proved useful for translating resource strings into another language and for looking up some stuff like how to use the fmt lib in c++.
But seeing how in just the last two years AI-generated content took over almost everything (youtube, social media, news channels) and projecting this for just a handful of years into the future means that there will no longer be even a single source of news or information that you can even remotely trust. And this for me breaks the illusion that AI is 'just a tool'.
I like(d) to use youtube for watching tutorials and documentation stuff, cpp conference (back to basics), branchless programming and such stuff on youtube. But everything else is getting hard for me to tolerate.
Before AI I never was the social media guy, but whatever. People using facebook / insta / whtasapp, ok, I don't get why someone would use it but I don't have to. Your business, not mine. But even that minuscule acceptance for me is over. Hard enough for me to accept that the rest of my family ignores me on this, but again, I can't make decisions for others.
So no, for everybody who really believes in God, outsourcing decision making to an AI is not an option. Rather a sign that the idea of what it means to be free has not entered their center of heart.

Thank you _very_ much for sharing this great video! This is what I love (and try to live by): Finding ways to do sth instead of searching for reasons why sth won't work.

Unique advantage? Get educated.

Banning cars in the city will have the same effect. And even better: the air quality improves rapidly. Which will reduce long term deaths.

It is brain dead argumentations like yours that make life hard for everyone. You call people who create bike lanes 'misery pushers'. But look into the mirror when you want to see one.

You are kidding, right? Every single comment you made was the complete opposite of "reasonable talk". And in this one you still go down and call me a "fragile fool". Where exactly is the "reasonable talk"?

There were many possibilities for engaging in "reasonable talk". Initially I made the point of showing the origin of the 0xcafebabe. Which in itself is quite interesting. I also pointed out that I deem Wokeness as a dangerous thing. Also something on can have a reasonable talk about. I said that I don't like to use hexwords and abstain from profanity in code. Since I like code to be clean. Again, something one can have a reasonable talk about.

But all you do is attacking me. No, you are far far away from being interested in a reasonable talk. Since you've avoid every chance of it.

Again, there is nothing to be gained from that.

Since you are in no way interested in a reasonable talk about the real issue at hand I refrain from this discussion, as there is nothing to be gained.

You realize that by using ad hominem you are actually the one who calls himself out as the stupid one?

While the first part of your explanation is a good start for a discussion, I don't get why you feel the need to end it with an ad hominem attack. Which immediately disgraces the validity of your initial argument and kills every possibility of a useful discussion.

I don't imagine myself using hexwords not because I lack imagination but because I am very reluctant to use profanity in code. It is like trying to read a good technical documentation that constantly uses smear words or tries to drive a political agenda.

For the possibility of mixing 0x12345678 with 0x13245678, that is always a possibility. In the mentioned commit the useful thing is to extract the 0x12345678 into a const which can then be used inside the test instead of writing the hex value multiple times. 0xcafebabe is equally easy to mix with 0xcafababe when you have to write it multiple times. Therefore dry is your friend here, extract it into a const and reuse it. Then the question which value you use becomes irrelelvant.